Gran Canaria national headquarters of the debate on the new challenges and paradigms of Education

 

The Councilor for Education of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Clari Martel Pérez, presented this Monday the I Forum of [RE] Education 'New Challenges, New Paradigms' that will turn the municipality into a national center of attention for debate and reflection on the challenges that faces the educational system.

 

“This Forum is born from the desire to create that space for dialogue, reflection, debate, to rethink and chart new paths towards a comprehensive conception of Education, with the aim of reaching each of the members of the educational community, and respond to the different challenges that arise in the classrooms,” said the councilor.

 

It is, he highlighted, the manifestation of the municipal commitment to “progressively and integratedly incorporate the indicators contemplated in challenge number 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Guarantee inclusive, equitable and quality education and promote opportunities for lifelong learning.”

 

Furthermore, the Forum, which was born with a vocation for continuity, also aims to "contribute to the continuous training of teachers and promote a paradigm shift in education as a transformed tool of social innovation."

 

The technician responsible for the Education area of ​​the Department, María Morales, explained that the format and theme of this I Forum of [RE] Education has been “very thought out, very reviewed and very dialogued” to respond to the needs that it demands. the educational community

 

on issues such as emotional care, mental health, coexistence, new technologies and dual professional training, through presentations, workshops and work tables.

 

National and local speakers

 

To address these issues, the Forum offers a “powerful program” that will feature qualified speakers of national reputation such as Dr. Mario Alonso Puig who will offer the inaugural conference “Education as a space of possibilities in an uncertain and changing world”; Nélida Zaitegi, educational advisor, former president of the school council of Euskadi who will speak about “Education for coexistence and against bullying”; Teacher, pedagogue and educational psychologist. Mar Romera with the presentation titled “Educate without Recipes”; and the teacher and writer César Bona, whose intervention will be about “Humanizing Education: an opportunity to [RE] think about education.”

 

 

 

 

In the area of ​​regional speakers, the approach to the 'Suicidal behavior prevention program and intervention protocol for suicidal risk in Canarian educational institutions of the Canarian Health Service' stands out, with the intervention of psychiatrist Francisco Javier Acosta Artiles; the clinical psychologist of the Health Promotion Service of the General Directorate of Public Health, Carmen Teresa Pitti González; and Dr. Eduardo Cabrera Casimiro, clinical psychologist of the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council.

 

'Diversity in school: Transsexuality from childhood and adolescence' is one of the great bets of this Forum with the intervention of Iñaki Goñi, technical advisor of the educational protocol for cases of transsexuality in Navarra; Joana Cabrera Berger. Doctor, case manager and TransCan Service coordination, of the Canarian Health Service; and Marisa Marrero Gómez, responsible for the protocol for the support of trans* students and attention to gender diversity, from the General Directorate of Planning, Innovation and Quality of the Government of the Canary Islands.

 

 

From the experience of local diversity

 

Clari Martel highlighted the strengths of the educational system in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana from the diversity of the students and realities that coexist in the centers. “A melting pot formed in which almost 7.000 students from 70 different countries come together, living in 11 early childhood and primary education centers (CEIP), four compulsory education centers (CEO), four secondary education institutes (IES), a adult education center (CEPA) and the official language school. “And soon we will also have a special education classroom and we hope, also the long-awaited Integrated Vocational Training Center (CIFP),” he advanced.

 

From the experience of these diverse local realities, the Forum shows the regional and national educational world with the aim of achieving a “multiplier and enriching effect throughout the educational community of Spain.” An example of this lies in the educational integration of unaccompanied foreign minors who arrive to the Islands. In this context, the knowledge acquired through the 'Patera Project' of the IES Faro and the 'Canarias Convive' Project that Vicente Zapata will present will be disseminated.

 

Families, students and municipal Education technicians have their spaces reserved through the work tables from which important positions will be extracted to constitute the conclusions of the Forum with the participation of the Ampas, the "Motive Project of Active Citizenship" of the Canary Islands School Council, and FECAM.

 

'Education and ICTs: inclusion, digital divide, access to technologies. The great challenge for students and teachers; adapting to the changes of a Post-COVID-19 world' is the topic of debate proposed by José Gilberto Moreno, director of the Elder Museum of Science and Technology.

 

'Dual FP as a new professionalizing educational resource and access to the labor market' will be another of the star topics of the Forum with the intervention of Gustavo Santana Martel. Deputy Minister of Employment of the Government of the Canary Islands, Dunnia Rodríguez, general director of the Employment Service and Enrique Pérez Darías, vocational training teacher.

 

Interculturality, humor and signs of identity as educational resources are also part of the program, so that each afternoon the sessions will culminate with a show that links the transversality of knowledge: Artistic Performance by the Thioune Brothers (Canary Islands/Senegal); 'Education with Humor' by Kike Pérez, Teacher and comedian; and 'Going back to the future: Verse tradition and learning' with Yeray Rodríguez, doctor in Hispanic Philology.

 

The 25st [RE] Education Forum 'New Challenges, New Paradigms' will take place on October 26, 27 and XNUMX, in the afternoon, at the ExpoMeloneras Conference Center.